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Haunts Abound

By Elizabeth Bahra · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Imagine this: You're in a pitch-black wine cellar with dirt walls, below the basement of an old mansion. You and your four counterparts are holding hands and prompting some sort of paranormal, or ghostly, activity. All of a sudden, three blue lights appear behind you and, as you're watching, gradually disappear. It couldn't be the other people in the room, and there is nothing on the ground when you turn the lights back on.

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Chevelle copies Tool, with great success

By Tom McMahon · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Look, it's Tool. No, it's Chevelle. The three Midwestern boys who started off with Point #1 have come a long way. That first album was supposed to have had a couple of singles and been very popular on college campuses (as the band was in college at the time) but I sure didn't hear any of those songs.

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Cars, violence can't carry flick

By Brian Haney · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

This movie has sweet action, but that's about all. The heaps of potential this movie brings to the theaters are absent, as was character depth, dialogue, any semblance of romantic interplay or a meaningful storyline. Frank Martin (Jason Statham) lives what seems to be a quiet life along the French Mediterranean, hiring himself out as a mercenary "transporter" who moves goods one place to another, no questions asked. I am sure you can see the brilliance emerging. The "Snatch'' star, whose stony features and receding hairline imply a British Bruce Willis, gets marked for death after he breaks his own rules (never look in the package) and discovers that one of his delivery items is a bound-and-gagged woman.

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Blondie a great blast from the past

By Brant Fechter · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Blondie's Greatest Hits showcases how a rock and roll band can have the talent to supply a buffet of hot pop, punk, New Wave, rap, blues, disco and spicy reggae. This CD is the perfect dance mix for a retro party supplied with disco ball and bell bottoms.

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Jackson sheds Jedi digs, dons a kilt for latest film

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Samuel L. Jackson is one of the best and most prolific actors working today. The sheer number of films he makes necessitates that some be good, others bad and some just smack dab in between -- "Formula 51" (originally known as "The 51st State" in its native England) is the latter. The film is a modestly entertaining hybrid of the works of Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie (himself a Tarantino wannabe) and a "Trainspotting"-era Danny Boyle.

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'Ring' meets all horrific expectations

By Parker Witman and Parker Wittman · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

When it comes to horror movies like "The Ring," there are a handful of brief, salient questions that should be answered without ambiguity. And instead of spending the next 350 words trying to get all the questions answered, we'll just get the big ones out of the way now.

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'The Instigator' ruffles feathers

By -Alec Toombs · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

"Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" This was a question posed by Rob Gordon (John Cusack) in the instant classic "High Fidelity," and one that pertains quite literally to Old 97's frontman Rhett Miller's second solo effort, and his first on a major label, The Instigator.

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EA serves up another hat trick

By C. Warner Sills and Mike D’Avria · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

EA has been making amazing hockey games since the creation of the company. Well, the newest version, "NHL 2003," is slower than Disney on Ice, the camera is too close to the action and the hits are about as hard as a "Celebrity Boxing" match. Luckily, EA has added hundreds of different gameplay and display options that let you customize the game to your liking. Once you speed up the skaters and add a bit of aggression, you realize that this is the best hockey game ever created. The graphics and sound make people think they are watching ESPN, but watching is just part of the fun. But be forewarned: as soon as you pick up a controller, it may be weeks before you put it down.

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Broadway diva Headley shows R&B potential

By K James Sward · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Crossover acts have always been present in the entertainment industry. Musicians like Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore and Britney Spears have all dabbled with acting, resulting in fluctuating degrees of success. Recently, actors have realized their musical talent (or lack thereof), using their Hollywood success to establish a musical career. Take, for example, comedian Jack Black (of Tenacious D) or more recently, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Heather Headley takes "crossing over" to a whole new level with the release of This Is Who I Am. Already a Tony Award-winning actress for her performance in the title role in Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida," Headley transitions into the over-crowded R&B genre.

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Clowns aren't always funny

By by Isaac Edwards and Isaac Edwards · Thursday, Oct. 24,2002 12 a.m.

Clowns are not happy people. They offer you their candy-coated smile and a taffy chew and damn your soul before you can say, "Bozo." And everyone knows what Bozo -- or should I say B.O.Z.O.? -- really stands for: Beelzebub's Overly-Zealous Offspring. The simple fact that clowns are in allegiance with the Dark Lord came as no surprise: thus, when, in 1990, ABC aired the mini-series adaptation of Stephen King's killer-clown epic "It."

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Finding my roots

By Joe Grace · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 6:06 p.m.

I went home last weekend to Evansville hoping to rediscover my roots, which I apparently lost somewhere on a "C" bus in my time here at Bloomington. This first came to my attention last week when I was having a conversation with a friend from home and she oh-so-casually remarked that I had a northern accent. There is no possible way, I told her. A person probably cannot forget a manner of living in a matter of a couple of weeks. Wrong, she replied. That should be, "People prolly can't fuhget a manna of livin' ina madda uva couple uh weeks." Crap. I had obviously forgotten how to say "y'all." So, I went home.

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Rehabilitation vs. punishment

By Rory Starks · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 6:05 p.m.

Prisons with the title "correctional facility" would imply there are locations used for correcting or rehabilitating. This is the intended purpose of jail sentencing, contrary to the popular belief that jail is a place of punishment. Imprisonment could be looked at as an extreme form of rehabilitation, the purpose being to incarcerate individuals who need a "timeout" from society -- a time to readjust their beliefs and priorities. While in prison, inmates should be given every opportunity to better themselves so they may reenter the real world as corrected individuals with the hopes of providing some societal contribution.

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Take down the enemy flag

By Erin Nave · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 6:03 p.m.

individual rules about the size and placement of decorations, but if Griffin would like to place Confederate symbols within Point Lookout's restrictions, no one will stop him. No one is infringing on Griffin's right to have pride in Confederate veterans and what they stood for. The Veteran's Administration gives him the opportunity to display that pride in a public arena twice a year. The Supreme Court decision upholds the First Amendment rights of Griffin, the relatives of all those buried at Point Lookout and the U.S. public.

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Weighing the costs

By Cherry Blattert · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 6:02 p.m.

Although U.N. inspections of Iraq will soon resume, the likelihood of not finding terrorist weaponry in Iraq is slim. Thus we must weigh the costs of military action in Iraq. What are the costs of going to war with Iraq? What are the costs if we do nothing?

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Dorm Porn

By Becky Bartindale · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 1:51 a.m.

IU students say a hallway in Teter quad was the location of an adult film shoot the first weekend in October. The film, "Campus Invasion," scheduled for release sometime in November, was made in various locations on IU's campus by adult filmmakers from Shane's World, a Web site based in Van Nuys, Calif.

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Broadway diva Headley shows R&B potential

By K James Sward · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 1:42 a.m.

Crossover acts have always been present in the entertainment industry. Musicians like Madonna, Jennifer Lopez, Mandy Moore and Britney Spears have all dabbled with acting, resulting in fluctuating degrees of success. Recently, actors have realized their musical talent (or lack thereof), using their Hollywood success to establish a musical career. Take, for example, comedian Jack Black (of Tenacious D) or more recently, Jennifer Love Hewitt. Heather Headley takes "crossing over" to a whole new level with the release of This Is Who I Am. Already a Tony Award-winning actress for her performance in the title role in Elton John and Tim Rice's "Aida," Headley transitions into the over-crowded R&B genre.

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'Barenaked' sounds great - but it's not

By Katie Burns · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 1:39 a.m.

Jennifer Love Hewitt has released her fourth album, Barenaked, and it is as memorable as the prior three. The album is shallow, predictable and imitative of all the female pop music that has been successful in the past year.

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Bond's homer can't save Giants

By Becky Bartindale and Josh Dubow · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 1:34 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Once again, Barry Bonds hit a long home run and the San Francisco Giants came up short. Bonds set a pair of records with a 437-foot shot to center field Tuesday night, but the Giants lost 10-4 to the Anaheim Angels and fell behind 2-1 in the World Series. Bonds, putting his past postseason failures even further behind him, hit his record seventh homer this October and also became the first player to go deep in his first three World Series games.

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Professor's book changes perceptions

By Kathleen Quilligan and Becky Bartindale · Wednesday, Oct. 23,2002 1:33 a.m.

The same name kept appearing. As she researched the history of gender and sexuality during the post World War II era, IU history professor Joanne Meyerowitz kept encountering Christine Jorgensen, a man who with the help of science, became a woman. "I kept finding articles about her and interviews with her in The (New York) Times, "True Confessions" magazine, in "Time," "Newsweek," anywhere I looked, and I got intrigued," Meyerowitz said. "I decided to follow up on her story which led me to the larger history on transsexuality." Meyerowitz's research resulted in the publication of her third book, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.

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